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A. Wood Eagle Mower, Miles Avery, Great Barrington, i 00 



Walter Wood Mower, James Sbead, West Stockbridge, 3 00 



Ithaca Rake, M A. Holmes, Lee, 3 00 



Granite State Horse Rake, James Dewell, West Stockbridge. 2 00 



Saratoga Rake, C. LaDorr, Balston, N. Y., 2 00 



Bay State Rake, A. W. Streeter, Winchendon, Mass., 2 00 



Fan Mill, A. Bryan, Pine Plains, N. Y., 4 00 



Hodge's Reversible Plow, D. H. Tbayer & Co., W. Saud Lake, N. Y., ' 2 00 



Ames Eagle Plow. Anson Buck, Lenox, 1 00 



Grain Flail, Merit L. Hall, Great Barrington, 1 00 



Your committee feel called upon to mention Wisner's self-dumping Hay 

 Rake, Manufactured by J. Dodds & Co., Dayton, Ohio, which might have 

 stood first had it been entered. We thought best to give but one premium to the 

 Ithaca rake entered by Holmesjof Lee, and Callender of Sheffield, as they repre- 

 sent the same manufacturer. 



Henry Dresser, 



Theodore Williams, )■ Committee. 



A. S. Tale. 



.MS, > 



DAIRIES. 



The committee upon dairies have attended to the duties assigned them and 

 report as follows. Your committee are fully satisfied that the dairy interest of 

 Berkshire county stands uppermost in importance with the agriculturist and 

 that the farmers of Southern Berkshire are giving their dairies their best thoughts 

 and efforts. We were called upon to view 15 dairies presented by the compet- 

 itors for the six premiums offered by the society, and would say they were all 

 good, ranging from eight to forty cows in number. It was very evident to your 

 committee that kind treatment and good care paid; that where cows were kept 

 in good condition through the winter, fast driving to and from pastures by clogs 

 in summer dispensed with, the largest profits were realized. Of the 15 dairies 

 examined, less than one-third were cared for at home in manufacturing the 

 milk into butter or cheese for the market. The largest dairies all dispose of 

 their milk at the factories or the city, thus dispensing with the hard labor at 

 home, and perhaps returning as large profits as if worked in the old way. The 

 expense and trouble of getting good help for the house evidently sends the milk 

 from home to be cared for. Your committee have endeavored to act unbiased 

 by any outside influence, away from the dairy itself. If when we have driven 

 into a farmer's yard, and the daughter has from the door announced to us tea 

 u>as all ready, please come in ; or have stopped at other yards between the 

 hours of 11 a. m. and 2 p. m. and the lady of the house has forgotten that the 

 committee might be glad of a little lunch, if not a good square dinner, we 

 have endeavored to remember it was the dairies and not the competitors we 

 were to pass judgment upon. Your committee feel that the importance of the 

 dairy interest demand that the society should certainly continue the present 

 offers in this department, if not increase the amount and number of premiums 

 offered. 



Whole number of entries, 15. 



Best Dairy, Lester T. Osborne. Alford. 

 2d do., Henry Duncan. Great Barrington, 

 3d do., Warren Walker, New Marlboro, 

 4th do., Leonard Tuttle. Sheffield, 

 5th do., J. W. Parks, Sheffield, 

 t'>th do,, Thomas H. Curtiss, Great Barringtou, 



Respectfully submitted, 



